Quotes About Balance

The cure for everything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.

I clap my hands together. (Where do I get the strength, the burst of energy?) To chase away the ghosts. Dispel my fears. Arrange the dream. Maintain a kind of balance

Le monde est en ordre Les morts dessous Les vivants dessus

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

emotionally incontinent,

Our civilization really does not harbour a concept of the whole of life

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind?

She had a capacity for tact, but she was also extremely honest, and if tact and honesty conflicted on any important matter, the honesty won.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don

A good mixture of nothing and everything is eating up my head alive.

I am never sane, you know -

I can't be good ALL the time.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

But it's like time is sort of Ã¢â'¬Â¦ balanced. We're young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we're old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don't you see.

Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure.

The first goal to be able to divide my life between two lovely places, an island off the coast of France and a village surrounded by Spanish mountains has been achieved.